# |-------------------Use this guide to format your text with--------------------| fam: fam File Alteration Monitor fam: fam: FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of fam: changes. This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of files fam: and notify applications through a socket. If the kernel supports dnotify fam: (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel. Otherwise it has to fam: poll the files' status. FAM can also provide an RPC service for monitoring fam: remote files (such as on a mounted NFS filesystem). fam: License: GPL-2 fam: URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ fam: Packaged by src2pkg